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Wendy Diamond is playing it safe, judging by her slick new magazine, 'Animal Fair,' which is about celebrity pets and debuts November 2. From the petting sessions with Brad Pitt to the latest in Chanel dog collars, it's clear that the founder of 'Ani...

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'We're waiting in line for tickets that may or may not go on sale,' Myles Lewis patiently explains to the radio reporter from W-something-some thing-something in Atlanta.
'Don't listen to him, he's a scalper, he's been divorced three times, arreste...

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A jittery police captain checked his watch and straightened his sagging gun belt. It was 4:20 p.m. last Saturday and the commander's repeated radio calls for cops in riot gear had been muffled by the uproar of a surging crowd. Although 16 unmasked me...

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The party's in a semiconverted industrial loft in Dumbo, on the third floor of a former factory with scabbed plaster walls and thick pillars and huge windows admitting both
the vaporous light of street lamps
and the ambient, hungry-organism thrum o...

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Charter Revision is supposed to be a chance for all New Yorkers to shape the constitution of our city. But few seem to be aware of the contents of the referendum on next Tuesday's ballot. Fewer still are fully aware of the steps Mayor Rudy Giuliani's...

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The National Hockey League rolled out of bed, stretched its limbs, and began its new season this month. It was greeted by yawns.
New York hockey fans expect October indifference, especially if the town's baseball clubs are playing on autumn's frosty...

on October 26, 1999

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Pat Buchanan could win the Reform Party nomination if he gets the solid backing of the Perot faction. But it won't come free. "We estimate that we will need to raise approximately $4 to $6 million to win the nomination, which, although it is a lot of...

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You have to wonder about Henry Brill's sanity. A Yale-educated psychiatrist, he was director of Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center from 1958 to 1974. During the latter stages of his tenure at the world's largest mental hospital, he was a national lead...

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The cashier walked out of a marriage after 27 years.
A woman with chipped red nail polish remarks that she's the "top cashier" at a local supermarket. Then she says it again. This 47-year-old probably deserves automatic bragging rights because of he...

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Yellow Submarine was not the first time the Beatles hit the cartoon world. The Fab Four's original 'toon incarnation was the Saturday morning show The Beatles, which ran from '65-'69 on ABC. Mitchell Axlerod, author of the new book Beatletoons, will...

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It was like the changing of the guard that moment this summer when Missy's "She's A Bitch" flopped spectacularly while Eve's "What Ya Want" established its long thrall over BET and Hot 97. This wasn't just Eve Jeffers displacing Missy Elliott as "th...

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Perhaps the quaint little village of Amityville seems especially sweet this time of year as a counterpoint to the horror story for which it's best known. Think of The Music Man, and you'll summon in your mind's eye the white gazebo that serves as the...

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You may not think Oprah Winfrey has a shot at the White House, but three Minnesota Reform Party members believe she can go all the way with the help of the Internet.
Bucking conventional punditry hey, it worked with the Body they're harnessing th...

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Finally, someone put a funny name to that two-tiered, bi-level haircut that's short on the sides, kind of short on top and long in the back: a mullet. Mark Larson, a 48-year-old Huntington High School grad who now works as an art director in the city...

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At first, the Spanish-speaking residents of 54 Greenwich Street didn't know what to make of the crackdown at their cavernous brick apartment complex in Hempstead.
It started in June, when building inspectors from the village began walking the dimly ...

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Let us triangulate. David Fincher's Fight Club is not a brainless mosh pit. Nor is it a transgressive masterpiece. As provocations go, this malevolently gleeful satire (closely adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's confrontational first novel) is extremely ...

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Anthony Berkeley, a.k.a. Poetic Da Grym Reaper of Da Gravediggaz, has come down with colon cancer, and a benefit fundraiser for him is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 26, at Brownie's, 169 2nd Ave. in the city.
Poetic, 34, who currently lives in Bay Sh...

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Here's an argument for letting kids play with their food. As an adult, Robert "Kato" DeStefan sits hunched over in his subterranean workshop, right in the manicured-lawn center of South Massapequa, giving birth to wondrous monsters created out of mor...